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 Kuta, Indonesia travel tales
Our customers share their travelling experiences in Kuta, Indonesia.
Read about first hand stories on travel tips and guides, events, entertainment,shopping, food, business and transportation.
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| J May |
11 August 2004 |
Stayed at Poppies Bali - Kuta, Indonesia.
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Bali is a beautiful holiday spot. Recommend hiring a driver for the day and going to have lunch by the volcano, going to the monket forest and shopping for arts and crafts in Ubud. Go and party and Double Six located at Legian Beach.
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| J Cutler |
26 July 2004 |
Stayed at Poppies Bali - Kuta, Indonesia.
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If you do not want to be hassled by hundreds of Sarong sellers and taxi drivers do not stay in Kuta for long. Best to stay for a day or two then head off to somewhere quieter on the island.
Good bars are mainly in Semanak, i.e. Ku De Tah and Hu'u for laid back sundowners. Kuta is only if you want to sing in the street and pick up drunk backpackers.
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| J Kingsley |
09 May 2002 |
Stayed at Poppies Bali - Kuta, Indonesia.
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Easy walk to lots of shops and the beach. Great food at Un's, also within walking distance.
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| N Johnson |
22 April 2002 |
Stayed at Poppies Bali - Kuta, Indonesia.
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Kuta is a the place to go if you like cheap copy t-shirts (or copy most things for that matter), cheap beer, dressing up as a surfer (noticed there were a lot of hangers on with all the clothes and no board!), actual surfing, and basically living a seriously hedonistic and borderline immoral existence. In short, Kuta is what many Australians would love Australians to be and probably would be if there were no goverment.
There is another Kuta and that is the one which is choc-a-bloc with health spas, beatiful furniture and lace shops, some excellent seafood restaurants, some very cool local and expat run designer clothes shops and a beautiful clean beach.
My ideal holiday is a combination of the two so Kuta was ideal. In my four night / three day stay we partied till four thrirty in the morning a couple of nights at the Hard Rock and Double-Six, ate delicious crab, shopped for clothes and gifts, visited Ubud (what a dump that place has become), spent a few hours in the galleries and furniture shops, tootled around on the USD5/day rental motorbike and generally lazed around the beach and the pool.
In my humble but experienced opinion, Double-
Six is one of the top clubs / discos in Asia (up there with Zouk in Singapore and Retro in Jakarta) along the beach at Seminyak. Well worth a visit, as it attracts its fair share from the local, tourist and expat community and also unites the gay and straight communities. Now there's a touching thought!
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| L Horn |
03 March 2002 |
Stayed at Poppies Bali - Kuta, Indonesia.
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Ignore the guide books. Kuta is great fun. It has the best beach in Bali. There are some fantastically smart restuarants springing up in the Kuta.Legian Area. Who wants to be stuck out at Nusa Dau and Jimbaran when your can have the best of everything here.
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| J Fosselman |
04 February 2002 |
Stayed at Poppies Bali - Kuta, Indonesia.
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We visited Ubud -- would have loved to have spent more time.
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| P English |
05 November 2001 |
Stayed at Poppies Bali - Kuta, Indonesia.
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Great place..the tour of the island is good, but you spend a lot of time in the car (% hours out of 8)
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| J Watson (dr) |
17 October 2001 |
Stayed at Poppies Bali - Kuta, Indonesia.
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Best way to get around Bali is to make use of the hotel driver/minibus service. Reasonably priced. However, the minibus stops at prearranged "tourist" spots and you are immediately surrounded by street sellers. This begins to get overpowering since a simple "no thankyou" doesn't seem to work. This is also true on the beach where it is impossible to more than two minutes between "sales visits".
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| T Ferguson |
19 September 2001 |
Stayed at Poppies Bali - Kuta, Indonesia.
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We have travelled to Bali many times and as a result have quite a few contacts. So we use local transport or negosaited driver/ transport. There is a great range of restaurants/ eating places in Bali from US$1 to US$60 per head all are good.
Note: wine is very expensive, Beer is cheap, good quality spirits are normal western prices.
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| B Dent |
10 September 2001 |
Stayed at Poppies Bali - Kuta, Indonesia.
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Visited Pemuteran for diving, Tulamben diving, Ubud for food.
Hire car from Poppies , very good rate and reasonable vehicle.
Best restaurants Ary's Warong in Ubud, TJ's in Kuta and Chi Chi's in Lovina Beach.
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